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Old 15th June 2012 | 22:38
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I don't know too many engineers that have been removing wing struts to do eddy current inspections on bolts holes just to name 1 page of 200 in the 100 series SID's.

Have done all the wing struts we had that were due several months ago after a supplier let me know a local company had one fail, we had one fail too out of 4 or 5 aircraft and that was replaced with a Servicable item, I also replaced all the nuts and bolts at the same time, something the SID's do not mention, ours failed because of deep pitting corrosion around the tie down hole when doing the rivet eddy current inspection.. One major problem is Cessna was giving at the time about 4 months plus turnaround on replacement struts.... One just hopes they address their lack of spares.

They were in the continuous airworthiness programme, though the wing spar attachment bolts and holes procedure was incomplete in the said programme

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